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title: "Data Feed: Democrats want Clinton, young children now less obese, California’s driest year on record"
description: "A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers."
date: "2014-02-26"
authors:
  - name: "George Gao"
    job_title: "Former "
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/george-gao/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/02/26/data-feed-democrats-want-clinton-young-children-now-less-obese-californias-driest-year-on-record/"
---

# Data Feed: Democrats want Clinton, young children now less obese, California’s driest year on record

*A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers.*

**Politics **[Most Democrats want Clinton to run in 2016](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/27/us/politics/most-democrats-want-clinton-to-run-in-2016.html?ref=newyorktimespollwatch), [topline](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/02/26/us/politics/times-full-poll.html), New York Times/CBS News** **[Boehner’s favorability returns to pre-shutdown levels](http://www.gallup.com/poll/167582/boehner-favorability-returns-pre-shutdown-levels.aspx), Gallup** **[57% of Americans say UN is doing a poor job](http://www.gallup.com/poll/167576/solid-majority-americans-say-doing-poor-job.aspx), Gallup [Pa. voters give governor low grades on their top priority – economy/jobs](http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-institute/pennsylvania/release-detail?ReleaseID=2012), Quinnipiac

**Economy **[Real average hourly earnings rose 0.4% in January, same as December](http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2014/ted_20140225.htm), BLS [Federal revenues to increase significantly over next two years, then remain steady](http://www.cbo.gov/publication/45130), CBO [How to read Obama’s new budget](http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2014/02/26-how-to-read-obamas-new-budget-wessel), Brookings [Value of natural gas net imports has declined dramatically in recent years](http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=15171), EIA

**Health & Society** [2013 is now California’s driest year on record](http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_show.asp?i=1087), Public Policy Institute of California [Potential health-exchange customers lean toward narrower, low-cost plans](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/02/26/likely-customers-of-health-exchanges-lean-towards-low-cost-narrower-plans/), Fact Tank [More from Kaiser's February health tracking poll](http://kff.org/health-reform/poll-finding/kaiser-health-tracking-poll-february-2014/), Kaiser Family Foundation [Obesity rate for young children plummets 43% in a decade](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/26/health/obesity-rate-for-young-children-plummets-43-in-a-decade.html?emc=edit_na_20140225&_r=1), [CDC](http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2014/p0225-child-obesity.html) via New York Times [1.3 million nonfatal violent crimes against disabled people in 2012](http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=4884), BJS [Male minorities struggle to succeed in community college](http://chronicle.com/article/Minority-Male-Students-Face/144979/), Chronicle of Higher Ed. [Mapping the battle over same-sex marriage](http://www.nationaljournal.com/domesticpolicy/mapping-the-battle-over-same-sex-marriage-20140226), National Journal [Americans turn sharply favorable on gay issues](http://www.religionnews.com/2014/02/26/gay-marriage-lgbt-prri-pew-religion/), Religion News Service [Average age of U.S. farmers, 58.3 in 2012, continues three-decade rise](http://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications/2012/Preliminary_Report/Highlights.pdf), USDA [When one spouse has an affair, who is more likely to leave?](http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol30/18/default.htm) Demographic Research

**International **[Ahead of elections, Indians want political change](https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2014/02/26/indians-want-political-change/), Pew Research Center [Has the Venezuelan government helped or hurt the country’s poor?](http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2014/02/25/has-the-venezuelan-government-helped-or-hurt-the-countrys-poor/) The Washington Post [Countries' top trading partners are often their neighbors](http://qz.com/181056/globalization-really-means-countries-just-trade-with-their-neighbors/), Quartz [Map: Cocaine use and seizures around the world](http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/02/daily-chart-15), The Economist [Which EU countries’ enterprises have greatest access to fast internet?](https://www.destatis.de/EN/PressServices/Press/pr/2014/02/PE14_065_52911.html;jsessionid=F3B4F076F6668B6B619F7B6F9043DA95.cae1) Destatis [35.2% of Canadians live in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver](http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/140226/dq140226b-eng.htm?HPA), Statistics Canada[ ](http://abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mediareleasesbyCatalogue/2E6CC1E17EACAB55CA2575660016933B?Opendocument)

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